by Kendall Strong | Jun 25, 2014 | Monitor
Rising sea levels and flooding caused by climate change will have marked consequences on the world’s population, particularly the most impoverished. Consequences will include extensive flooding, leading to the loss of inhabited and arable land. The environmental...
by Charlotte Baskin-Gerwitz | Oct 7, 2013 | Monitor
Recently, I wrote a piece on water insecurity as a climate-related threat; now I will discuss food scarcity and broader resource scarcity, mostly as related to agriculture, oil and minerals. Such scarcity has a high potential to cause conflict. The U.S. intelligence...
by Rory Johnston | Jul 23, 2013 | Monitor
At 141 billion barrels, the Republic of Iraq holds the fifth largest total proven oil reserves and the third largest proven conventional oil reserves in the world. It is also likely that Iraq’s oil position has nowhere to go but up. Due to continuous conflict over the...
by Ollie Engebretson | Jun 18, 2013 | Monitor
With much of the global chatter focused on Syria and Iran, foreign policy discourse has largely ignored the stalemate over Western Sahara. However given the conflict’s implications for Morocco-U.S. relations, regional cooperation, and US security concerns, the U.S....
by Peter J. Munson | Jan 17, 2013 | Monitor
By: Peter J. Munson ESOC identifies, compiles, and analyzes micro-level conflict data and information on insurgency, civil war, and other sources of politically motivated violence worldwide.
